Rankings & Recognitions
K&L Gates Practices and Lawyers Recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2022 Edition
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has been ranked in more than 30 practice areas in The Legal 500 United States 2022 edition, with the firm’s accolades again including Tier 1 rankings in the M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m) and Transport: shipping - litigation and regulation categories. The edition also recommends 115 K&L Gates lawyers as leading practitioners. Published annually, The Legal 500 rankings recognize the practice area teams who are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel.
As a firm, K&L Gates was recognized in the following categories:
- Alternative/hedge funds
- Construction (including construction litigation)
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals
- Delaware counsel
- E-discovery
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Energy litigation: conventional power
- Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy regulation: conventional power
- Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy transactions: conventional power
- Environment: litigation
- Environment: regulatory
- Fintech
- General commercial disputes
- Government contracts
- Government relations
- Healthcare: service providers
- Insurance: advice to policyholders
- M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Outsourcing
- Private equity buyouts
- Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate
- Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Transport: aviation and air travel - finance
- Transport: shipping - litigation and regulation
Along with the firm’s rankings, 14 K&L Gates lawyers were identified by The Legal 500 as either a “Leading Individual,” “Next Generation Partner,” or “Rising Star” in their respective practice areas. These lawyers, and the categories in which they are recognized, were:
- Erica Bakies - Government contracts [Rising Star]
- Leah Baucom - M&A: middle-market [Next Generation Partner]
- Calvina Bostick - M&A: middle-market [Next Generation Partner]
- Ndenisarya Bregasi - Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Leading Individual]
- Mark Goshko - Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds [Hall of Fame]
- Amy Conant Hoang - Government contracts [Next Generation Partner]
- Jeffrey King - Transport: shipping [Leading Individual]
- George Kontakis - Transport: shipping [Next Generation Partner]
- Luke Reid - Transport: shipping [Next Generation Partner]
- Emanuel Rouvelas - Government relations [Leading Individual]
- Michael Scanlon - Government relations [Leading Individual] and Transport: shipping [Leading Individual]
- Scott Waxman - Delaware counsel [Leading Individual]
- Ifigeneia Xanthopoulou - Transport: shipping [Rising Star]
- Robert Zinn - M&A: middle-market [Hall of Fame]
K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. The firm represents leading multinational corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals.
